From: James Oakley <jfunk@funktronics.ca> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 16:47:26 -0300 Message-Id: <01060216472600.17033@arthur> Subject: AS1000/200 Mikasa booting
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I am an Alpha newbie, but I've been getting through it fairly well, despite
my problems.
First, the 7.1beta is awesome. The LVM works great and all of my hardware was
detected flawlessly, except for the CL on-board video (I don't really care
about that).
One point about the installer: I cannot do an NFS install with the six ISOs.
Once it runs out of packages to install on disk one, it tries to immediately
get the other packages from the same place. There is no dialog for "insert
disk 2" or the like. Luckily, I had enough space to copy the entire tree into
one and do the install from that, yay.
My current problem is with booting. Basically, if I don't boot in a
specific, nonsensical way, the machine will hang. My notes on this are online
at http://arthur.funktronics.ca/arthur/AXPInstallation
Here is what I have to do:
While in ARC, I have to go to the Supplementary Menu and select Display
Hardware Configuration so that all of my 7 hard drives are detected properly.
If not then MILO will only detect 5 of them and the machine will hang on
"Spinning up disk sda..."
Then, when I'm in MILO, I have to type 'ls bootdev' where bootdev is the
device I'm booting from. If I don't do that, MILO will crash.
Because it's so strange, I have no idea why it works when I do this and not
otherwise.
Has anybody else seen anything similar?
Any ideas on how I can get the machine to boot without human intervention?
Thanks,
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James Oakley
jfunk@funktronics.ca
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